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Recently I’ve reestablished contact with Martyn, grandson of Horace Jaikens, the police officer who was in charge of the Ramsey Police Station when Josef was captured. Martyn is a war history buff and a great source of information on Ramsey and the surrounding area.

Last week, Martyn sent me some information from a book that detailed a bit of the history of the Huntingdonshire Constabulary (H.C.). There were some great group pics of the Ramsey police detachment as well as a letter from the Chief Constable of the H.C. dated February 17, 1941. Captain J. Rivett-Carnac was writing to all the police detachments informing them of Josef’s capture. In his report, Rivett Carnac included a very detailed list of Josef’s possessions, in some aspects, more detailed than the others drawn up by Jaikens and MI5. Let’s take a look

• pocket knife with wide blade, brown wooden handle, blade stamped “Swing”
• oblong wristwatch stamped “9321 Fond Acier, Inoxidable”
• dictionary with blue and gold covers with golden stars dotted thereon marked “Meti
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  Almost 80 years ago, a pair of reading glasses changed hands. German spy Josef Jakobs handed his spectacles to Lance Corporal William Chidlow, a Coldstream guardsman who was a Military Policeman with Britain’s Armed Forces. The transfer took place in the early hours of Friday, August 15, 1941, at Wandsworth Prison. Josef, found guilty of espionage, was due to be executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7 am. He knew that he would have no further use for his spectacles and wished Chidlow to have them. The two men, one a German prisoner, and the other an English guard, had spent three weeks together and, despite language difficulties, had managed to connect. They had shared stories of their families. Despite being on opposite sides of the war, the two men were both soldiers and this bonded them together.

  The story of Josef’s spectacles is a fascinating one. Seventy years after the spectacles changed hands from Josef to Chidlow, they once again changed hands, from Chidlow’s daughter to Josef’s son. On his death bed, Chidlow had made his daughter pro